Well, when it doesn't pencil.
British did it first and better anyways. Same concept, heavy base light nose, was used in .303 British MKVII but of course in a 174 grain .311 diameter bullet. Did the US army ever try the concept in the 7.62x51? I feel like it would be a real winner of a cartridge.
Lel, Sherman was fucking wrong.
NATO withdrew the American 5.56mm round for not being able to penetrate armour and complaints about it being inhumane, and adopted the Belgian one.
>The Belgian 62 gr SS109 round was chosen for standardization as the second NATO standard rifle cartridge which led to the 1980 STANAG 4172. The SS109 used a 62 gr open tip bullet with a seven grain steel core for better penetration against lightly armored targets, specifically to meet a requirement that the bullet be able to penetrate through one side of a WWII U.S. M1 helmet at 800 meters (which was also the requirement for the 7.62mm). It had a slightly lower muzzle velocity but better long-range performance due to higher sectional density and a superior drag coefficient. This requirement made the SS109 (M855) round less capable of fragmentation than the M193 and was considered more humane.[12]
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You mean the time when the USAF bombed several Kriegsmarine U-Boats and red-cross vessels engaged in humanitarian recovery work (saving the sailors of the RMS Laconia, a British Merchant Navy ship - in accordance with the laws and customs of naval war at the time)? The incident that the Americans decided to memory hole after giving the aircrew and officers involved several medals for bombing their allies and men engaged in saving the lives of their allies? The incident that lead Admiral Donitz to issue the 'Laconia Order' which commanded the Kriegsmarine to stop offering humanitarian aid to the men of the ships they sank, leading to the deaths of god knows how many British and American sailors (Naval and civilian), which Admiral Donitz used to shame his prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials? The first incident in Americas history as world leaders in friendly fire and sociopathic jackassery? That Laconia Incident?
They should just make poison rounds standard issue then. Make a small glass ampule and embed it in the lead core of the bullet. It will break when fired but will stay in the bullet because it is sealed. Impact-deforming lead will displace the incompressible fluid into the wound.
Well, as you were so persuasive …
We've been making it worse for 250 years, and the end is nowhere in site.
Fuck 150 I'm nigger-tier today.
Nigger tier or not there's no excuse for phonetic spelling
Give it a decade.
A decade until the end of war? That's optimistic. Are you predicting global apocalypse, the second coming, one world government, or what?
I was predicting the end of America. At least as THE world power. War will continue for as long as the number of humans (or intelligent organisms) is greater than 1.